The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has nominated students in Ballard High School’s Digital Filmmaking Program for four National Student Production Awards. NATAS industry professionals and university professors selected the nominees from 1,500 entries produced by students throughout the nation.
Nominated for best Long Form
Non-Fiction is 9066, a documentary about the internment of US citizens of
Japanese ancestry during WWII by Maya Konz, Bailey Wall, Kajsa Woolford and
Nolan Baker. Nominated for best
Short-Form Fiction, best Writer, and best Audio/Sound is Comeback by Skala Leake,
Aaron Miller, Cameron Miller & Avery Davis.
Comeback is a story of a soccer player coping with a
life-altering setback. The nominated
productions can be viewed online at www.vimeo.com/bhsfilmprogram.
The awards presentation will
be live-streamed from the Los Angeles campus of Emerson College on Tuesday,
October 3rd at noon, and will be hosted by television personality
Tom Bergeron, star and host of AVC’s Dancing with the Stars. You can view the presentation at https://www.facebook.com/TheEmmys.
The Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences (NATAS) has presented High School Awards of Excellence for years
to celebrate and promote the most outstanding high school television
productions from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The Academy created a national level for
these awards just last year, and Ballard filmmakers won best Music Video and
best Photographer/Editor. This year, the
four nominations place Ballard in the lead among national nominees from the
Northwest Chapter.
